Kirk G
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You'll probably laugh at me, but my initial 17 packages of Estes Motors, of various impulse ratings, were all stored in a cardboard box a bit larger than a check book storage box...but smaller than a shoebox. They stand upright, wedged in tight enough to hold each other up. (They are all in original blister packs.)
As I broke open a pack, I laid the package down in the top most tray of a plastic fishing tackle box that was sold back in the 1970's. Back in the day, I bought one of these mustard & tope colored tackle boxes at the local Yankees brand discount store, and began packing my electrical/soldering "things" in it, connectors, wire, solder, etc. And I still use it. But last year, against all odds, I found an identical box for a buck at the goodwill store, with the original packaging stickers still on it. :clap: I bought it for my son for Xmas, but he turned his nose up at it.
So, now I use that secondary tackle box as a jump kit for rocketry, with CA, ignitors, batteries, ruler, sand paper, masking tape, wires, etc... all ready to go when I want to go fly.
However, I am extremely concerned about the flammable nature of those rocket engines, even though they are in shrink-wrapped cardboard mounted blister packs. I am sure they are dry and secure, but it makes me nervous to have that number of flammable engines all together and in a non-metal box. :no:
Am I right to be concerned? Is there a better way to store them?
Right now, I have them out in the open, on the stone hearth of an UNUSED fireplace that CANNOT BE USED. I figure that's the safest non-flammable surface in the house, and if they DO go up, :y: it's barely a foot to shove them into a fireplace.
Am I being unreasonably concerned?:sad:
As I broke open a pack, I laid the package down in the top most tray of a plastic fishing tackle box that was sold back in the 1970's. Back in the day, I bought one of these mustard & tope colored tackle boxes at the local Yankees brand discount store, and began packing my electrical/soldering "things" in it, connectors, wire, solder, etc. And I still use it. But last year, against all odds, I found an identical box for a buck at the goodwill store, with the original packaging stickers still on it. :clap: I bought it for my son for Xmas, but he turned his nose up at it.
So, now I use that secondary tackle box as a jump kit for rocketry, with CA, ignitors, batteries, ruler, sand paper, masking tape, wires, etc... all ready to go when I want to go fly.
However, I am extremely concerned about the flammable nature of those rocket engines, even though they are in shrink-wrapped cardboard mounted blister packs. I am sure they are dry and secure, but it makes me nervous to have that number of flammable engines all together and in a non-metal box. :no:
Am I right to be concerned? Is there a better way to store them?
Right now, I have them out in the open, on the stone hearth of an UNUSED fireplace that CANNOT BE USED. I figure that's the safest non-flammable surface in the house, and if they DO go up, :y: it's barely a foot to shove them into a fireplace.
Am I being unreasonably concerned?:sad:
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